You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.

Hey, I hope you're enjoying these interviews.

I just have a couple quick announcements before we get started.

Number one is that these women that are brave, courageous, awesome women that have

volunteered their time to give these interviews to be real with us.

They are working real women. They are usually hiding or in secret to do these interviews

because a lot of them are still living with their loved one who's struggling with addiction.

So we don't use first names and we try to protect their privacy. That's actually our

biggest priority when conducting these interviews. But because we're not in professional sound

studios and we're not, you know, a Hollywood actress or actor that look the quality of the sound

isn't always going to be perfect. You're going to hear car doors because some women are hiding in

their garage giving this interview. Some women are giving this interview really early in the

morning while making breakfast for their young kids. One woman was, you know, pulled over on the

side of the road in complete privacy. So I am so grateful that you are willing to be kind and

nice about the quality of recording and that we're keeping it real here because we want to give you

truthful, honest, unedited stories. So secondly, in today's episode, there is a lot,

speaking of real, and in my office and just got a reminder, sorry about that.

But okay, the second thing is today's episode might be difficult to hear. We do mention

some violence and we do mention guns. So I adore this interview but it might be hard. So I'm just

throwing that out there for you. And then thirdly, I just want to say from the bottom of my deepest

heart, to say thank you so much for leaving all of these positive reviews. I don't normally ask for

them, but I read them every one of them. And they encourage me to keep going. So I like to keep

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